Diaspora and the Difficult Art of Dying, Sudesh Mishra, 2002
- Fiji, #7
- Borrowed from SF library
- Rating: 4.5/5
- Read: February 2016
- Recommended for: storm-tossed master mariners
Diaspora and the Difficult Art of Dying: my memory fails me once again
On the List
Kava in the Blood: Who knew a coup could be so boring?
Kava in the Blood, Peter Thomson, 1999
- Fiji, #5
- Paperback, $12 from Amazon.com
- Rating: 2.5/5
- Read: February 2016
- Recommended for: People with better attention spans than mine
Moving Through the Streets (hopefully on the way to a creative writing class)
Moving Through the Streets, Joseph Veramu, 1994
- Fiji, #4
- $9.49 from alibris.com
- Read January 2016
- Rating: 1.5/5
- Opening Line: The burly man wearing an undersized yellow tee-shirt that accentuated his bulging biceps and chest cast a warning look at Sakaraia before he took hold of his hand and stamped it with the ‘pass in’ mark.
- Recommended for: credulous delinquents
Last Virgin in Paradise: What a Girl Wants (is largely considered irrelevant)
Last Virgin in Paradise, Vilsoni Hereniko and Teresia Teaiwa, 1993
- Fiji, #3 and Kiribati, #3
- Borrowed from SF library
- Read November 2016
- Rating: 3/5
- Recommended for: drama/women’s studies double majors
The Wounded Sea: Trump will kill us all and no one will stop him (and also there’s a book review in there somewhere)
The Wounded Sea, Satendra Nandan, 1991
- Fiji, #2
- Borrowed from SF library
- Read January 2016
- Rating: 2.5/5
- Recommended for: exiles and patriots
Where the Hell Is Tuvalu?: Another European guy discovers the world
Where the Hell Is Tuvalu?: How I Became the Law Man in the World’s Fourth Smallest Country, Philip Els, 2000
- Tuvalu, #2
- $0.99 from alibris.com
- Read January 2016
- Rating: 3/5
- Recommended for:
armchaircouch potato adventurers
The Challenge: Not Accepted
The Challenge, Ruperake Petaia, 2011
- Samoa, #5
- Kindle, (a waste of) $4.99 from amazon.com
- Read January 2016
- Rating: 1/5
- Recommended for: Ruperake Petaia (because I can’t imagine anyone aside from the author enjoying this particular piece of literature)
Well, that’s half an hour of my life I’m never going to get back.
Telesa: The Covenant Keeper (Boy meets girl meets fa’afafine)
Telesa: The Covenant Keeper, Lani Wendt Young, 2011
- Samoa, #4
- Kindle, $2.99
- Read December 2015
- Rating: 3/5
- Recommended for: Harry Potter/Insurgent crossover fanfic authors
Where We Once Belonged: Rejecting the Polynesian Paradise
Where We Once Belonged, Sia Figiel, 1997
- Samoa, #3
- Borrowed from SF library
- Read December 2015
- Rating: 4/5
- Recommended for: Women who have been groped by Donald Trump
Leaves of the Banyan Tree
Leaves of the Banyan Tree, Albert Wendt, 1979
- Samoa, #1
- £0.69 from alibris.co.uk
- Read December 2015
- Rating 3.5/5
- Recommended for: 10th grade English classes
Around the World in 2000 Books 